From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francesco =?utf-8?Q?Potort=C3=AC?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: How do I use tags to go to begv_byte instead of BEGV_BYTE? Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:57:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8762yup6tg.fsf@gmail.com> <87mxs3rd9l.fsf@gmail.com> <87aao1p72g.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1283375542 5498 80.91.229.12 (1 Sep 2010 21:12:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 21:12:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wojciech Meyer , Lennart Borgman , Andreas Schwab , Stefan Monnier , Emacs-Devel devel To: Wojciech Meyer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 01 23:12:20 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OqubT-0006L9-Ah for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:12:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42863 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OqubS-0003ck-HY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45651 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OquZO-00028Q-0j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:10:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OquOI-0004Xy-GU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from blade3.isti.cnr.it ([194.119.192.19]:53459) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OquOI-0004Xh-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:58:42 -0400 Original-Received: from conversionlocal.isti.cnr.it by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5 #31825) id <01NRE4DFHITSI53W36@mx.isti.cnr.it> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:57:28 +0100 Original-Received: from tucano.isti.cnr.it (tucano.isti.cnr.it [146.48.81.102]) by mx.isti.cnr.it (PMDF V6.5 #31826) with ESMTPSA id <01NRE4DEUN1UIU27UO@mx.isti.cnr.it>; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:57:26 +0100 Original-Received: from pot by tucano.isti.cnr.it with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1OquN4-0003Ea-8U; Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:57:26 +0200 In-reply-to: <87aao1p72g.fsf@gmail.com> X-INSM-ip-source: 146.48.81.102 Auth Done X-fingerprint: 4B02 6187 5C03 D6B1 2E31 7666 09DF 2DC9 BE21 6115 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:129564 Archived-At: >> I have not used etags for some time now, mostly because I have not done >> development on multi-file projects for some years. But I think that >> etags.el should in fact take the major mode into account. > >Thanks for the vote. > >Maybe the improvement would be to use `major mode' `syntax tables' as >well to recognize tokens, and/or better integration with CEDET (yes, >`etags' seems to be quite lightweight alternative + provides consistent >interface for dealing with tags). etags has its own rules for identifying characters, and those same rules ae mirrored into etags.el. What would be syntax tables used for? >BTW: clearly I now see you are a maintainer of `etags' package and I >should contact you before I posted a patch, but just didn't think about >it. I might contact you with some more sooner or later. :) Don't worry. I am not very active with etags. Fortunately it needs little work, but nonetheless I have backlogs. By the way, I could use some help in maintaining it.